With 98% of precincts in Connecticut reporting, former WWE Chief Executive Officer and Republican candidate for US Senator Linda McMahon trails Democratic candidate Richard Blumenthal 54-44%. Her campaign, priced in the realm of $50 million, was thus unsuccessful in even putting McMahon within striking distance of victory.
But according to various Connecticut media and some internal wrestling sources, McMahon’s Senate aspirations might not be done. The Hartford Courant ran a story late last week suggesting that McMahon would be a frontrunner for GOP endorsement in the 2012 race against Joe Lieberman. The story, written prior to the election, played on the angle that whomever lost the Blumenthal-McMahon race would likely remain in the picture for 2012.
While WWE, seemingly acknowledging the reality that Linda was going to lose Tuesday, poked fun at the campaign process in a comedy segment on Monday’s WWE RAW, it appears that the wrestling company’s former executive might not yet be done pressing for a gig in Washington.